A non-structural test for competition in the container liner shipping industry

The liner shipping industry has experienced fundamental changes in recent years due to globalization, deregulation, horizontal/vertical integration, (increased) cooperation, rationalization, developments in information technology, consolidation and increased concentration. These developments may affect competition. As in other industries, competition in the (containerized) liner shipping indust…

Towards a Better Understanding of Experience during Trips: Impact on Satisfac…

AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to reinforce the experiential paradigm from which academics and practitioners currently explain consumer decision making in touristic activities. More specifically, this research brings new insights for understanding consumption experience. The aim is to establish relationships between Experience, Satisfaction, Destination Attachment, as well as …

Time to rethink Norwegian maritime collaboration exercises

Purpose This case study maps the perceived collaboration between public, private, and volunteer organizations during maritime crisis work, with a substantive focus on communication, information flow, and distribution of activities. The exercise studied was held in the far north in Norway. It was estimated to be Europe’s most extensive exercise in 2016. Design The data were collected through …

Maritime piracy and the cost of world trade*

Abstract Purpose – The aim of this study is to determine the nature and extent of the threat of global maritime piracy. The cost of global piracy has been estimated at USD15-25 billion, reaching an all-time high in 2011, remaining an ongoing threat to world trade and contributing to high commodity costs.

Knowledge management capability and supply chain management practices in the …

Abstract Purpose – The main goal of this research is to examine the effect of knowledge management capabilities on supply chain management practices and organizational performance in firms, in addition to examining the effect of supply chain management on organizational performance. Design/methodology/approach – To demonstrate the effect of knowledge management capabilities on supply chain…

Knowledge capture to inform sustainable maritime operations

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to report an explicit taxonomy of maritime operations (MO) to guide Harbour Masters (HM)s of smaller ports in planning more sustainable operations. Design/methodology/approach – This research presents strategies for building theory to promote more sustainable port management in a two-stage research design. Starting from a base taxonomy in research stag…

Integration, supply chain resilience, and service performance in third-party …

Abstract Purpose – Supply chain resilience (SCR) is essential to the success of firms. However, very few studies have focused on the relationships between different types of integration, SCR and service performance from the perspective of third-party logistics providers (3PLs). The purpose of this paper is to develop and assesses a conceptual model for these relationships. Design/methodolog…

Evaluating the supply chain information flow in Egyptian SMEs using six sigma…

Abstract Purpose – There is a great deal of concern among the Egyptian economy that small- and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs’) potentials are not fully used although they dominate it and contribute to its success. The question is what challenges are preventing those SMEs from performing efficiently. This research aims to focus on examining the issues regarding the supply chain of Egypt…

The role of Panama Canal in global shipping

Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to find out the future development of the Panama Canal after opening of the new waterway (third set of locks project), in terms of the change of cargo throughput, further deployment of fleets by the shipping companies and competition for the canal.

Strategic positioning analysis of Spanish cruise ports

Abstract Purpose – Cruise traffic has dynamically advanced worldwide over the past two decades. This maritime business and tourism typology is strongly concentrated in several links that comprise the cruise product. With regard to destination regions, the concentration occurs both in the few worldwide destination regions and in the specific ports within a given destination region. Moreover,…

Performance obligations for “revenue from contracts with customers” princ…

Abstract Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate the gap between cost-based and time-based revenue recognition schemes in the accounting of ship-owning corporations, and to propose cost-based revenue recognition (as in general accounting practice) in connection with the performance obligations. Design/methodology/approach – For a comparative analysis of time-based (traditional ap…

Indonesia oil & gas report Q3 2017 : Includes 10-year forecasts to 2026

Despite ample hydrocarbon reserves, Indonesia's oil and gas production is set to face long-term declines over the next decade. Investment interested in the Indonesian upstream sector will prove muted due to notorious regulatory issues, uncertainty surrounding ongoing review of the domestic oil and gas law and the high-cost, long-term nature of potential projects.

Indonesia Oil & Gas Report Includes 10-Year Forecasts To 2026

Falling production against rising demand will see Indonesia become a larger importer of crude oil, refined fuels and natural gas (in the form of LNG) over our 10-year forecast period. Notably, diminishing gas supplies and subsequent pressure to exports will turn Indonesia into a net LNG importer for the first time by 2021. Realisation of the government's ambitious downstream expansion plans cou…

Indonesia oil & gas report q4 2017 : Includes 10-year forecasts to 2026

Falling production, slowing exploration interest and a maturing asset base - alongside rapid consumption growth - will increase Indonesia's dependency on crude oil and refined fuels imports over the coming years. The country's historical self-sufficiency in natural gas is expected to end by 2022.

Indonesia Integrated port network

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Are shippers satisfied with the diversified provision of logistics service by…

This paper explores the current feature of the service provision in the shipping industry and contributes to a more thorough understanding of the industry. A questionnaire was developed to examine the performance of service providers assessed by international shippers in the UK and South Korea. We find that British shippers are more likely to be satisfied with the diversified service provision …

Clustering analysis prioritization of automobile logistics services

The purpose of this paper is to provide a clustering approach to segment supply chain partners in the automobile industry and prioritize services offered by third party logistics service (3PL) providers

Are supply (driven) chains forgotten?

This paper explores the current feature of the service provision in the shipping industry and contributes to a more thorough understanding of the industry. A questionnaire was developed to examine the performance of service providers assessed by international shippers in the UK and South Korea. We find that British shippers are more likely to be satisfied with the diversified service provision …

The Steve Jobs way : iLeadership for a new generation

The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Job's throught his tenure, Jay Elliot takes readers on a remarkable tour through Job's astonishing career. From the inception of game chaning products like the Apple II and the Macintosh, to his stunning fall from grace, adn on to his rebirth at the helm of Apple, his involvement with Pixar, and the development of t…

International Handbook of Maritime Economics

This timely and comprehensive new Handbook brings together an unrivaled group of distinguished scholars and practitioners to provide in-depth analysis and a contemporary perspective on a wide-ranging array of topics in maritime economics. Inherently global in nature, the economics of the maritime sector has proved pivotal in facilitating globalization and international trade. This HandbOOK o…

Industri pelayaran indonesia

Buku ini merupakan hasil penelitian yang dimulai tahun 1973, yang berkaitan tentang dampak regulasi terhadap efisiensi industri pelayaran pengantar thee kian wie. Adapun sistematika penelitian ini adalah 1. pendahuluan 2. Evolusi Industri Moderen pelayaran antarpulau 3. struktur pasar dan persaingan 4. dampak persaingan 5. perusahaan 6. PELNI 7. Prasarana 8. Perizinan dan pengendalian …

The report Indonesia 2014

On the cusp of 2014 national elections and the 2015 integration of the ASEAN Economic Community, Indonesia is poised to continue its rapid economic expansion. While the country’s natural resources are still plentiful, by channelling foreign direct investment into the right areas, the government is ensuring that true potential, in terms of value and manufacturing, is achieved. By inviting t…

Integrating corporate social responsibility and other strategic foci in a dis…

The purpose of the paper is to explore the challenges of integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) with other strategic foci into the supply/contractor chain, both conceptually and empirically, with a focus on one sectorial case: the Norwegian upstream petroleum industry. It compares contradictory theories of strategic focus and explores their implications for the organisation of the su…

Experiences of implementing ISO 9000 in Swedish industry

The period 1990 to 1993 saw a profound transformation within Swedish industry. This transformation took place in response to the deepest recession experienced in decades. Companies responded by searching for different methods to increase their competitive power. One approach in these efforts was to increase efficiency through the use of different comprehensive quality concepts. Different advoca…

Unveiling co-operative networks and ‘hidden families’ in the container po…

Over the last few years, the progressive scarcity of land for greenfield projects in ports and the enormous financial resources required to realize new terminal facilities have induced international terminal operators (ITOs) to enter in various types of agreements. In particular, ITOs have growingly resorted to equity joint-ventures (EJVs) to develop new infrastructures and share project risks.…

Network effects in the East Asia container ports industry

This paper proposes an integrated set of 4Cs indices, namely, centrality index, competition index, congestion index and concentration index to examine network effects in the East Asia container port industry. Empirical analysis confirms that larger ports enjoy greater direct network effects related to economies of scale, whereas, smaller ports leverage on indirect network effects to widen their…

Impact of the container security initiative on Taiwan's shipping industry

This paper evaluates the impact of risk factors from the container security initiative on Taiwan’s shipping industry by employing a risk management matrix to identify the severity and frequency of CSI risk factors, and discovers some appropriate risk management alternatives. This paper’s findings are as follows: (1) The majority of risk factors have a moderate-risk level, and possible alte…

Identifying Country Environments to Increase Container Traffic Volumes

We witnessed significant technological changes in shipping, including the development of jet aircraft engines and the use of containerization in ocean shipping. In the maritime industry, more than 90 percent of international cargo moves through seaports, and 80 percent of seaborne cargo moves in containers. This shows that the importance of seaborne trade, in particular, trade by containers. Th…

Firm-specific Effects on Location Decisions of Foreign Direct Investment in C…

HONG J. (2007) Firm-specific effects on location decisions of foreign direct investment in China’s logistics industry, Regional Studies 41, 673–683. This paper uses conditional logit models to investigate firms-specific effects on location decisions of foreign direct investment in China’s logistics industry. Based on a recent census database, the empirical results indicate that the import…

Establishing an order allocation decision support system via learning curve m…

Apparel firms confront the problem with effective order allocation among factories when conducting global logistics operations. The problem is non-deterministic polynomial-time hard and often complicated to obtain an optimal solution. This research tried to solve, by heuristic method, the problem via applying the learning curve to the capacity planning to improve the decision-making on global l…

Dealing with uncertainty and volatility in the port industry network: social …

The recent proliferation of inter-firm collaborative linkages within the container port industry is progressively shaping a complex architecture of voluntary ties among terminal operators, i.e. an inter-organizational network. Within the overall industry network, some stable groups of densely interconnected firms emerge suggesting the existence of “cliques” where firms repeatedly cooperate …

Competitiveness of Asian Container Terminals

The paper analyzes factors affecting the competitiveness of Asian container terminals by including quantitative as well as qualitative factors such as operating capacity, convenient facilities, electronic documents handling capacity and connectivity to hinterland. I provide evidence that those factors have a nonnegligible role as to competitiveness of container terminals. The paper applies a pa…

An RFRS that combines RFID and CBR technologies

The purpose of this paper is to propose a real-time food receiving operations management system (RFRS), focusing on demonstrating the use of a case-based reasoning (CBR) and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in managing the complex food receiving activities in distribution centers, to deal with the global concerns in food safety management

capital and labour two case studies of the port industry in California

These two cases give accounts of technological innovation in a particular industry, ie bulk cargo handling and containerisation in the port industry. The geographical setting is the Pacific Coast of Northern California, more precisely at Sacramento and at San Francisco. The subject of technological innovation is a vast one, the extent of the port industry along the full length of the Pacific Co…

Service innovation through dynamic knowledge management

The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a study on the management of intellectual capital in Fortune Motors. It intends to highlight how an automobile service firm apply dynamic knowledge management concept to create new service processes which resulted in breaking through the bottleneck of profit loss

Staying afloat: A history of maritime passenger industry marketing

The purpose of this paper is to recount the history of the marketing of the maritime passenger industry (known today as the cruise industry). This is a unique industry that has survived and thrived for almost 175 years despite dramatic environmental changes. This history focuses on passenger shipping in and out of the USA first from/to European ports, later focusing on cruises from the USA to t…

Indonesia Petrochemicals Report Includes 5-Year Forecasts To 2021

Chandra Asri Petrochemical (CAP) remains the leader in investment in petrochemicals. CAP has set out plans to invest USD6bn in a number of projects over 2016-2021. CAP's capital outlay for 2017 was USD150mn focusing on ramping up production capacity on a number of petrochemical products, particularly butadiene, as well as its cracker facility. Indonesian chemicals output surged 10.1% y-o-y in 9…

Iindonesia Freight Transort Report Includes 5-Year Forecasts to 2019

BMI View: In 2016 the air freight mode will see the most significant growth in Indonesia, as trade in Asia is set to rebalance after stalling in 2015 and key sectors such as the pharmaceutical market will see a boost in growth. In our medium-term forecast to 2019, BMI believes the rail and air freight modes will see higher growth than road freight transport, as a result of state and external in…

Stakeholder awareness of climate adaptation in the commercial seaport sector:…

Seaports ascriticalshore-basedinfrastructureareparticularlyvulnerabletoimpactssuchassealevelriseand increasingincidentsofsevereweatherevents.Inexcessofninetypercentofglobaltradebyvolumis transportedbysea.InIreland,seaportsareofstrategicimportancetothenationaleconomy.Asanisland nation,ninetyeightpercentoftradebyvolumecomesthroughitsseaports.ClimateissuesfacingIrish portsincludeincreasingstormine…

Enterprise resource planning (ERP)—A brief history

This is a brief history of ERP—enterprise resource planning. Major ERP vendors are discussed as well as the major impact of developments in computer hardware and software on the industry. The industry consolidation that has recently occurred is also discussed. Interviews were conducted with Mr. Ed McVaney, founder of J.D. Edwards, Rick Allen, former VP of Finance and Administration, and Rick …

Management Development Programmes for the Asia Pacific Region Maritime Indust…

Singapore, although a city-state of only 2.7 million people, is the world's busiest seaport by every measure: number of vessel arrivals and departures, total tonnage of vessel traffic, and volume of cargo handled. It should not be surprising,then, that the Port of Singapore Authority has taken the lead in maritime-industry human resources development in the Asia Pacific region. The Port of Sing…

Offshore service industry and logistics modeling in the gulf of mexico

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Reverse logistic process control measures for the pharmaceutical industry sup…

The aim of this paper is to analyze the pharmaceutical supply chain using the DMAIC process for improvement of the reverse logistics in a recall to avert the possibility of harm to a consumer.

Aligning product design with the supply chain : a case study

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the alignment between product design and the supply chain and to identify how this alignment impacts on a firm’s supply chain responsiveness and resilience.

Using fourth-party logistics management to improve horizontal collaboration a…

There is a paucity of literature considering horizontal collaboration among grocery retailers, suppliers, and third-party logistics (3PL) providers. This paper seeks to investigate benefits of and barriers to the use of fourth-party logistics (4PL) management as a catalyst for horizontal collaboration.

Aftermarket support and the supply chain : exemplars and implications from th…

To examine supply chain competences necessary to efficiently and/or effectively succeed in aftermarket support.

Modelling the consequences of a strategic supply chain initiative of an autom…

Describes the use of a decision support system (DSS) in part of a strategic supply chain initiative of an international automotive aftermarket organisation undertaken in 1996-97. The strategic initiative consisted of four distinct stages; a review of the current state, definition of the future vision, development of the operational blueprint and its implementation. A simulation based decision s…

A model for evaluation and selection of suppliers in global textile and appar…

The issue affecting US textile/apparel companies in global business competition is to find suitable suppliers for their operations. The selection and evaluation of their global suppliers to meet the goal of having effective and efficient supply chain operations and strengthening their position in the market become critical for US textile/apparel manufacturers to maintain their competitiveness i…

3C framework for modular supply networks in the Chinese automotive industry

The purpose of this paper is aimed at understanding and identifying the context, capability requirements, and configurations (3Cs) of modular supply networks in the Chinese automotive industry.